Ernesto is in love with Norina and intends to marry her, but he finds
strong objections from his uncle Don Pasquale, who disinherits him. To the rescue
arrives Dr. Malatesta, proposing an intrigue that promises to teach the old men
a lesson and solve all the young couple’s troubles.
The action happens
in Segovia, in the middle of the XIXth century. In a hillock there rises a
rustic farm known as "El Soto del Parral", where Germán, a farmer, lives
wife his Aurora, helped by Damián, an awkward young boy with sleeping problems,
and Catalina, a spirited maid, stubborn in marrying Damián.
Luisa Fernanda is a romantic zarzuela in three acts by Federico Moreno Torroba. It has been performed more than 10,000 times. The libretto, in Spanish, is by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández Shaw. The first performance took place at Teatro Calderón inMadrid on March 26, 1932. It was Moreno Torroba’s fourth zarzuela, his first to receive great acclaim.
Madama Butterfly is an opera in two acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto in Italian of Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Puccini based its opera partly on John Luther Long’s story Madame Butterfly (1898), which was dramatized by David Belasco. Puccini also based on the novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) of Pierre Loti.
The Amazement of Damascus is a zarzuela in two acts inspired by One Thousand and One Night, with book by Antonio Paso y Cano and Joaquín Abati, and music by Pablo Luna. It first open at the Teatro Apolo of Madrid on September 20th 1916.
The Saffron Rose, free adaptation of the comedy of Felix Lope of Vega El Perro del Hortelano, narrates an impossible love story between two members of different social classes, in the rural Spanish region of La Mancha.
One of the
biggest zarzuelas, based freely on the comedy of Lope de Vega “La Discreta
Enamorada”, paints the portrait of a romantic Madrid in a poetical and faithful
manner, creating colorful, vivacious and fresh pictures.
In a single scenographic frame, with a uniform costume design with small variations, extracts from operas by Richard Strauss and operettas.
David McVicar’s acclaimed production sets the action in a French château in 1830 on the eve of revolution, amplifying the opera’s undercurrents of class tension. The entire household is drawn into the notoriously complex plot, which covers all shades of human emotion: from spirited playfulness, to deep despair.
Carlos Wagner’s energetic production of Thomas Adés explicit essay on lust, glamour, fame and celebrity.
Graham Vick's stunning and majestic production of Handel's vivid tragedy, Tamerlano, with Richard Hudson-s extravagant Baroque-Islamic designs emphasizing the brilliance of one of Handel’s finest dramatic achievements.
Fall and redemption in an outstanding production of The Rake's progress by Robert Lepage, set in the United States of the 50's, bringing brilliantly to life Tom Rakewell's vulnerability and the steadfastness of Anne Trulove.